South african english writers and their biography

For a small country with only four hundred years of European influence, South Africa has a very rich literary identity.

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The difficulty of being able to present a list of the best South African authors is that the population is made up of multiple cultures, and speaks scores of languages. The country is unusual in that it has eleven official languages. The different communities are each, in turn, linguistically fragmented and some of the sub-groups that have grown out of the mixing of groups have developed new group identities.

This rich demographic texture has thrown up an amazing variety of writers, particularly in the twenty-first century.

Where does this leave the selection of ten of the best South African writers? The list cannot contain just the Nobel Prize for Literature winners and those who almost made it to the Prize. Nor can one take the politically correct route and fill the list with young black writers at the expense of white writers of previous generations who may be 10 South African Biographies You Should Read - Youth Village PEJOZ